Flappy Birds generated a real hysteria among the developers of applications for the platform iOS, a good part of them trying to take advantage of the game's popularity by launching some of its clones. Based on this desire, App Store- has been invaded by these clones, almost a third of all games released recently in App Store being similar Flappy Birdsof the Almost 300 games were launched yesterday alone App Store, and a third of them they were either clones of Flappy Bird, or games seriously inspired by the gameplay of that title.
Of course, the imagination of the developers helped them to replace the Flappy Birds with various characters, the entire graphics being slightly changed, but the idea behind the games remains the same. Apple tried to refuse the publication in the App Store of games containing the name Flappy, but following the very large number of titles sent for publication, the company seems to have given up on the idea, and most of the games released recently contain this name in the title.
If you are wondering how profitable is copying Flappy Birds, well the developer of Flappy Bee, one of the first clones of the original game, generates between $10.000 and $15.000 for its developer. Apple forced him to change the name and replace part of the graphics taken from the old game, and the title did not reach the users' bars, but for more than a week it generated significant amounts of money for its creator. In the end, it seems that cloning games is a profitable business in the App Store, and Apple does absolutely nothing to stop this.
